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A gun fired on a rainy night in south London sets off a chain of violence: a reckless car jets into a bus stop, killing an innocent bystander. What follows is a bleak indictment of gang culture, where a teenage initiator, a seasoned gangster plotting revenge, and a pregnant woman close to childbirth are all drawn into a dangerous enquiry. In a city where violence can be both random and calculated, loyalty costs lives and truth is buried beneath layers of secrecy. Mark Billingham delivers a hard‑edge thriller that intertwines the grim realities of street gangs with the personal peril of a mother‑to‑be on the brink of death.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Crime Fiction/Organized Crime
Authors: Mark Billingham
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